Monthly Archives: July 2017

Olympic gold medalist skier Lindsey Vonn recorded a video this week to let everyone know that she is not dating Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. She said that she has been getting trolled by people since making fun of Rodgers on Instagram. She wrote “Wow you are so short” as a comment on the 6-foot-2 Super Bowl champ’s photo of himself …

Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on stuff going on in the world. At San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, Steven Spielberg released the first trailer for Ready Player One, a movie based on the 2011 book of the same name. The internet went nuts, but if you’ve never heard of the book, you might not know why. Let …

Former Oregon forward Jordan Bell was drafted by the Bulls in the second round this year, but then the Warriors made a deal with Chicago to have him join their championship squad as the only rookie. So now the 22-year-old is getting a bit more attention than he would have if he had stayed on the Bulls. He’s apparently so …

The 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event, with its $8.15 million prize, is down to three. Saturday night (5:30 p.m. PT — televised starting at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN) the culmination of a 10-day event. It took some absolute crazy hands, bad beats and quads! (four-of-a-kind) to get us here. And it took a monster hand between two …

Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston is one of the most popular professional golfers on the planet. An everyman in the mold of John Daly — a man he considers an idol — and fans everywhere love him for it. Beef is playing well this week — a three-under third round of 67 moved him into the top 20 on Saturday at the …

Since Dale Earnhardt Jr. won his first pole in almost four years — he started first in the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway — the NASCAR world has been buzzing about whether he’ll race in The Clash — an invite-only, exhibition event at Daytona in February. His pole win qualified him, and he wants to do it. But …

More Winning! Trump ICE officials are targeting Obama’s “Unaccompanied Alien Children” gangbangers for deportation. Via The Conservative Treehouse: Many people might be familiar with the 2013/2014/2015 “Unaccompanied Alien Children” (UAC) crisis which stemmed from a specific President Obama policy/construct to allow a massive influx of South American migrants to enter the U.S. Despite most media reports to the contrary, a considerable …

Gionee has been an active player in the offline mobile phones segment in India. The company earlier this year launched their flagship handset – the Gionee A1 in India which ended up being a moderate success. The company also followed that launch with a spruced up ‘Virat Kohli’ edition of the handset after they roped in the ace cricketer as …

MAINGEAR this week introduced the first small form-factor Razer Edition desktop aimed at loyal clients of Razer. The new MAINGEAR R2 Razer Edition uses AMD’s and Intel’s latest platforms and comes with a lot of green lights, green coolant, and other green features to reflect the company’s main color. Razer has made quite a name for itself over the years …